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		<h1 id="COMMUNICATION_LINK">COMMUNICATION LINK</h1>
		<h3 id="DEFINITION">DEFINITION</h3>
		<p>A Communication Link is a link between a Component and an Exchange Item. When following an Interaction-driven approach, Communication Links help specifying the interactions between Components without having to structure these interactions in concrete Interfaces.</p>
		<p>Communication Links fall in two generic categories: Transmit and Acquire. According to the Communication Mechanism of the involved Exchange Item, these two categories are refined (Send/Receive fro Event, Call/Execute for Operations, Write/Read for Shared Data, Produce /Consume for Flows). Protocol scan be defined on Communication Links.</p>
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